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Transformative Encounters: The Intervention of God in Christian Counseling and Pastoral Care is unavailable, but you can change that!

What would it mean for Christian counseling and pastoral care to take seriously the idea that God intervenes in the world? What would it look like for therapists and pastors to see themselves as opening the door to a miraculous divine encounter? How would counseling change if the intervention of God was not merely a theoretical idea but a lived experience? Building on Gary Collins's classic work,...

After salvation, God permeates everything—his light penetrates deeply into the darkness—and we are given new eyes by which to see and to seek after new life in the Spirit. . The new creaturehood that comes with salvation consists of more than an intellectual, cognitive change. It is also emotional. Ezekiel 36:26–27 says “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move
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